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It is not clear whether the Northern Provincial Council Chief Minister Retired Supreme Court Justice C.V.Vigneswaran’s maiden speech on 25th October at the chamber of the Northern Provincial Council Assembly was an ultimatum or a challenge to the Central Government of Sri Lanka.

The Agreed Minutes of the Second Sri Lanka – Malaysia Joint Commission were signed in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday by the Heads of the two delegations, Professor G.L. Peiris, Minister of External Affairs of Sri Lanka, and Dato Hamzah Zainudin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia.

A Bengali writer once famously wrote – 'Raate mosha, deene maachi, ei niye Kolkatay aachi '(meaning: With mosquitoes at night and flies at daytimes, I reside in Kolkata). Kolkata, of course, these days in the post-partition of India period, is no longer part of Bangladesh, but is the capital city of nearby West Bengal state of India, where Bengali is the lingua franca.

European leaders are up in arms against the US over the claims that its National Security Agency, NSA, is spying on them on regular basis with the aid of very sophisticated electronic surveillance systems. The simmering row took a turn for the worse, when it emerged this week that the agency was eavesdropping on the mobile phone used by Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor.